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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
SBOE
Joe Torgesen
Phonemic/ decodable words
2. r-controlled syllable
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Kinesthetic
Vr
Anglo Saxon
3. Wide Range Achievement Test
Adolf Kusmaul
Mathew Effect
Semantics
WRAT
4. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Consonant Digraph
Norm-referenced tests
V-e
Standard score
5. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Vowel
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Synthetic Instruction
Digraph
6. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Breve
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
IEP
Criterion referenced tests
7. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Criterion referenced tests
Great Vowel Shift
Phoneme
Components of Reading Instruction
8. Final stable syllable
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9. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Curriculum referenced tests
Cedilla
Fluency
Derivative
10. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Expressive language
Suffix
Profile
Fluency
11. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Consonant
Sound Symbol Association
Impulsivity
Comprehension
12. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Tilde
Trigraph
Base Word
Digraph
13. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Composite Score
Vowel Digraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
Consonant Digraph
14. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Tilde
Phonics approach
Letter naming Chart
NICHD
15. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Syllable Instruction
Multisensory
Diagnostic tests
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
16. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
WIATII
Pre-English
Stanine Scores
Adolf Kusmaul
17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
IMSLEC
Latin layer of language
Syntax
18. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Breve
Pre-English
Academic Achievement Tests
Auditory Learners
19. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Syllable
VAKT
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Anglo Saxon
20. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Trigraph
Chall's Stage 4
Standard Scores
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
21. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Six basic types of syllables
Grapheme
GORT
22. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Old English
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Stage 1
RTI
23. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Synthetic Instruction
Funding
Grapheme
Standard deviation
24. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Chall's Stage 0
Semantics
The Norman Conquest
Dyslexia
25. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Accommodation
Criterion referenced tests
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
26. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Great Vowel Shift
Grade equivalents
Texas Education Code 38.003
Profile
27. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
V >
Auditory Processing
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Standardized test
28. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Expressive language
Sight Words
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 1
29. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Universal Screening
ALTA
Cognition
30. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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31. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Percentile
IEP
Great Vowel Shift
Composite Score
32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
VAKT
Frank Smith
Three Layers of Language
33. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
MSLE
Rate
Syntax
Morphology
34. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 4
Age equivalent
Dyslexia
35. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Norm-Referenced Test
Mastery level
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Visual Learners
36. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Affix
Comprehension
Keith Stanovich
Raw score
37. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Modern English
Adolf Kusmaul
38. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Chall's Stage 5
Keith Stanovich
Academic Achievement Tests
Modification
39. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Analytic
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
CTOPP
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
40. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
VAKT
Trigraph
VC
41. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Mastery level
Joe Torgesen
IDEA
42. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Prefix
Social language
Achievement test
Battery
43. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
[-'le
Phoneme
Consonant Digraph
Simultaneous teaching
44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
VC
Anna Gillingham
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
45. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
MSL
Stanine Scores
Multi-Sensory Approach
Accent
46. State Board of Eduation
Cognition
SBOE
Diagnostic tests
Phonological Awareness
47. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Vowel Digraph
Fluency
VV
Diagnostic Teaching
48. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Combination
Three Layers of Language
Progress Monitoring
49. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Syntax
Cognition
Attention
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
50. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Quadrigraph
Ability
Greek layer of language
Achievement test